From 23994791a058ac8611ec1997fc6a2ea8da86edb7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eric Meehan <eric@eom.dev>
Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2025 11:59:04 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Initial commit

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 .gitignore       |  1 +
 README.md        |  4 ++++
 client.py        | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
 requirements.txt |  4 ++++
 server.py        | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 5 files changed, 61 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 .gitignore
 create mode 100644 README.md
 create mode 100644 client.py
 create mode 100644 requirements.txt
 create mode 100644 server.py

diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
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+++ b/.gitignore
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+venv/*
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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+# Owncast Chat Logger
+This code was taken from a blog post: https://mcgillij.dev/getting-owncast-chat-in-obs.html
+
+I have not found a way to wrap lines in OBS, so this repo is not being used.
diff --git a/client.py b/client.py
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+++ b/client.py
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+import requests
+import json
+
+webhook_url = 'http://localhost:5000/webhook'
+
+data = {'eventData': {'body': 'this is a test. testing 123.  testing abc',
+        'id': 'MHLpo7Hng',
+        'rawBody': 'f',
+        'timestamp': '2021-09-20T23:02:54.980066719Z',
+        'user': {'createdAt': '2021-09-20T22:34:33.139297191Z',
+                 'displayColor': 22,
+                 'displayName': 'mcgillij',
+                 'id': 'avyQt7N7R',
+                 'previousNames': ['mcgillij']},
+        'visible': True},
+        'type': 'CHAT'}
+
+r = requests.post(webhook_url, data=json.dumps(data), headers={'Content-Type': 'application/json'})
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
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+++ b/requirements.txt
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+Flask
+python-dateutil
+python-dotenv
+requests
diff --git a/server.py b/server.py
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+++ b/server.py
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+from datetime import datetime
+from dateutil import parser
+from dotenv import load_dotenv
+from flask import Flask, request, abort
+
+import os
+
+app = Flask(__name__)
+load_dotenv()
+
+CHATLOG_FILE = os.getenv('CHATLOG_FILE', '/tmp/chat.txt')
+
+@app.route('/webhook', methods=['POST'])
+def webhook():
+    if request.method == 'POST':
+        message = request.json.get('eventData').get('body')
+        user = request.json.get('eventData').get('user').get('displayName')
+        timestamp = request.json.get('eventData').get('timestamp')
+        formatted = datetime.strftime(parser.isoparse(timestamp), '%H:%M:%S')
+
+        if user and message and timestamp:
+            write_out_chatlog(formatted, user, message)
+        return 'success', 200
+    else:
+        abort(400)
+
+def write_out_chatlog(timestamp, user, message):
+    with open(CHATLOG_FILE, mode='a') as chatlog:
+        chatlog.write(f"{timestamp} {user}: {message}\n")
+
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    app.run(host='0.0.0.0')